The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-01
Local and State Notes.

The l. & St. L. is putting up two additional
telegraph wires between Indianapolis and Terre
Haute.
James McCrea, general manager of the Penn
sylvana lines west of Pittsburg is so i'll to be
confined TO the house.
Geo. W. West has been appointed master
mechanic OF the n ", z. 81 o., vice j. A.
Cooper, who retires to-day.
s. r. Galloway, general manager of the
Union Pacific, is route for New York, and
will in few days sail for Europe
Official notice is given of the appointment of
Fl Frank l.. Whitney Western passenger agent
fof the Lake Shore road, with headquarters at
Chicago.
1t is understood in railroad circles at Muncie
that w. S. Weed, general freight agent of the
Lake Erie IL Western railroad, is to be appoint
ed to similar position the Wabash road.
Over onehalf of the SO. OOO 900 per cent
bonds OF the g., l., St L. & c. have al
ready been refunded into per cent bonds, max
ing saving Of over 800, 900 yearly IN fixed
charges.
The track-layers pushing the extension of
tho Chicago e. Eastern Illinois from Danville to
Tuscola briskly and it is expected to have trains
running over the road regularly early as the
18th of August.
Among the good things which the c., H & D.
people have found on the Vandalia the Wa
ters-Sweeney telegraph switch. which they like
much that they will at once introduce it on
the C., H. 81 d. proper
Neil Kerr, who represents the Cincinnati
Southern In the Southeast, in the city yes
go to Asheville this season to attend the annual
meeting of the Quakers.
j. j. Collister was yesterday appointed travel
ing freight agent of the Indianapolis & ST.
Louis road, with headquarters at St. Louis
Mr.. Coistor has for years been in the
freight Office at Cleveland.
The sleeping coach run nightly between Indi-
annapolis and Detroit over the Lake Erie e,
Western and the Wabash has at last become a
paying institution. Last month it averaged
eleven passengers each way nightly
Orders have been given that the passenger
engines on the l., ID. 81 5. road painted with
red smoke stack and red wheels shall be run
through the shops rapidly practical and be
repainted black with golden stripes.
The c., H. & d. surveying corps has com
pleted the SURVEY of the proposed line from
hlchmond to Jonesboro, distance of sixty-ona
miles At Jonesboro connection is made with
the Cincinnati, Wabash e Michigan.
Norman Beckley general manager Of the Gin
cinnati, Wabash d Michigan was in the city
yesterday. Mr.. Beckley says their entire pas
seuger equipment Is in constant service, so
heavy Is travel to pleasure resorts reached by
this line.
II the bridges on the indianapolis & Vincennes
road settle with only an excursion train passing
over them, what would be the result were the
heavy traffic of the Pennsylvania lines thrown on
TO the road, as has been talked of as part of a
new line to St Louis.
The project of building branch of the Grand
Rapids q Indiana from Grand Rapids 10 Detroit
via Lansing is said to be taking definite shape
This would give the G.. r. & /. route from
Muskegon 20 Detroit in addition to its main line
from Mackinaw to Richmond, Ind.
e. B. Walls, of Pittsburg SUPERINTENDENT of
motive power of the Pennsylvania lines west OF
PittsburG, is in the city, looking over matters at
the shops The shop which was burned has been
rebuilt, and Is nearly ready for occupancy, and
the new ooller-shop is nearing completion.
The local freight committee is excited because
the Cincinnati Washington & Michigan insists |
nDon making the same rate freight from In |
Elanapohs to Detroit as on Toledo business |
The c. W. 81 M. is also disturbing rates on Chi |
cage business. having the advantage of o part |
rail and rart water route.
passenger-rate war is imminent on west-
bound business out of Toledo In connection
with the t., c. q S. road the l., b. 81 W. and
the Chicago & Alton, it is alleged, cutting
rates on Kansas City business. The l.. B. 81 w.
goes In there using its 81 differental, and the
Dther roads propose to meet it.
The general feeling is that A. A. Talmage is
overwork on the system of roads controlled by
the Jay Gould syndicate There is a feeling
that when II. NJ Hoxie died from the same
eause, MIR. Talmage should have taken heed
and lightened his burdens. instead of increasing
them.
The discovery of natural gas in In diana need
not necessarily damage the coal traffic of In
diana roads; the companies will only need haul
the coal further for a market. Rates will adjust
themselves to the conditions, as in times past
But few years ago il cost 81 25 to get a ton OF
coal from Brazil to indianapolis; cow it is hauled
ut 90 cents per ton.
The c., II. g. ID. people are fgrrinc on putting
on swell train" between St Louis and Cincin-
nati Superintendent Nelson says he proposes
20 cut the running time between the two cities
down to ten hours. The train will consist of a
baggage car, one day coach and two parlor cars,
20 be haaed by the best engines the Wanda
ia and the c., H. d ID.
The prospects are good that the Travelling Pas
senger Agents Association will pass out Of ex-
lstence in the future At the recent an
nual meeting held at Old Point Comfort. some |
sorty OF the original members of the association
were dropped because they had been appointed
20 more important positions in the railroad serv-
Zee. Most OF them are Western men, and they !